Autumn Quote by Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…

— Oscar Wilde

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

— Oscar Wilde

“What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.”

— Oscar Wilde

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where…

— George Arnold

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead…

— Charles Dickens

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

— Mortimer Adler

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody…

— Lewis Carroll

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if…

— Andre Gide

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

— Laurence Sterne